“Aging does that; it makes you amenable to far more ambiguous feelings and opinions than the inflexible black-and-white thinking of youth.” — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Many many people find themselves wondering in their 40s and 50s, is this all there is? — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
The last remaining thing that must be communicated to the next generation is an aging figure that still continues to change. — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to… — Angie Dickinson Copy Share Image
The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
“Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool… — Kouhei Kadono Copy Share Image
“Still, it is like a long hopeless homesickness my missing those young days. To me, they're like my own place that I… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Of course some people manage to write books really young and publish really young. But for most writers, it takes several years… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
“As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of… — lauren klarfeld Copy Share Image
Turning 40 is often a big symbolic point in one's life. In the 20s we feel we can do anything, but as… — Tom Butler-Bowdon Copy Share Image
To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
While longer life expectancies have been a wonderful blessing for many families, including my own, they have also led to much greater… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
Your age doesn't define your maturity your grades don't define you intelligence, and rumors don't define who you are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years. — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
“Arthur thinks that, above all, aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I don't see my skin aging. I see my skin looking as good, or better, than it did ten years ago...and that… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight their stories will be about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly. — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Both of my grandmothers are aging well, and my mom is, too. I've got some good genes. — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
“New year is another opportunity of seeing life with little more caring, compassion, maturity and beauty.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.” — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed. — Andrew Niccol Copy Share Image
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging. — Ron Rosedale Copy Share Image
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty. — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
“Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had? — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
